Spleen
Evereve Lyrics


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Quand le ciel bas et lourd pese comme un couvercle
Sur l'esprit gemissant en proieaux longs ennuis,
Et que de l'horizon embrassant tout le cercle
Il nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits;

Quand la terre est changee en un cachot humide,
Ou l'Esperance, comme une chauve-souris,
S'en va battant les murs de son aile timide
Et ce cognantla tete a des plafonds pourris;

Quand la pluie etalant ses immenses trainees
D'une vaste prison imite les barreaux,
Et qu'un peuplemuet d'infames araignees
Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux,

Des cloches tout a coup sautent avec furie
Et lancent vers le ciel un affreux hurlement,
Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrie
Qui se mettent a geindre opiniatrement.

- Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique,
Defilent lentement dans mon ame, l'Espoir,




Vaincu, pleure, et l'Angoisse atroce, despotique,
Sur mon crane incline plante son drapeau noir.

Overall Meaning

The above lyrics are from Evereve's song Spleen, which is based on the poem of the same name by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. The lyrics describe a feeling of overwhelming sadness and despair, where the weight of the sky feels heavy on the soul, and the horizon seems to pour forth a darker day than any night. The singer describes feeling trapped in a damp, prison-like earth where hope is like a timid bat, knocking its head against the rotten ceilings. The rain is compared to a vast prison mimicking bars, and the mind is overrun by a silent, wicked population of spiders spinning webs in our brains.


However, the most poignant part of the song comes in the last two stanzas where the singer describes hearing the bells suddenly ring out with fury, much like how restless, homeless spirits would howl mournfully. The singer then sees long funeral processions passing through their soul, led by anguish, tyrannical and despotic. The final line sees the black flags of despair firmly planted on the singer's bowed head.


Overall, the song's lyrics provide an intensely vivid and visceral snapshot of what it feels like to experience true despair, hopelessness, and anguish.


Line by Line Meaning

Quand le ciel bas et lourd pese comme un couvercle
When the heavy, low-hanging sky feels like a suffocating lid on the grieving mind, plagued by long-lasting troubles.


Sur l'esprit gemissant en proieaux longs ennuis,
On a mind that moans in the grip of sustained anguish.


Et que de l'horizon embrassant tout le cercle
When the horizon encircles everything.


Il nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits;
It pours upon us a day that's darker than the nights.


Quand la terre est changee en un cachot humide,
When the earth has turned into a damp prison,


Ou l'Esperance, comme une chauve-souris,
And hope, like a bat,


S'en va battant les murs de son aile timide
Flaps its timid wings, beating against the walls.


Et ce cognantla tete a des plafonds pourris;
And knocks its head against rotten ceilings.


Quand la pluie etalant ses immenses trainees
When the rain, with its vast, dragging train,


D'une vaste prison imite les barreaux,
Mimics prison bars in a vast cell.


Et qu'un peuplemuet d'infames araignees
And a silent crowd of loathsome spiders,


Vient tendre ses filets au fond de nos cerveaux,
Casts their webs deep into our brains.


Des cloches tout a coup sautent avec furie
Suddenly, bells leap into frenzied ringing,


Et lancent vers le ciel un affreux hurlement,
And send a horrifying scream towards the sky,


Ainsi que des esprits errants et sans patrie
Like wandering spirits with no home,


Qui se mettent a geindre opiniatrement.
Who obstinately groan in agony.


Et de longs corbillards, sans tambours ni musique,
And long hearses without drums or music,


Defilent lentement dans mon ame, l'Espoir,
Slowly parade through my soul, where hope,


Vaincu, pleure, et l'Angoisse atroce, despotique,
Defeated, weeps and the atrocious, despotic anguish,


Sur mon crane incline plante son drapeau noir.
On my bowed head, plants its black flag.




Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: MICHAEL ZEISSL, TOM SEDOTSCHENKO

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Pamela Frank

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Marina Ferro

I don`t have words to express how amazing this song is...

Stargazar

Ohne Tom ist EverEve nicht mehr EverEve Stormbirds ist ein Meisterwerk!!!! R.I.P Tom

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Olivia Venner

Une pure merveille pour la fierté de la langue française...

fabrozor

thank you for sharing

MrRoach123

die genialste gothic- platte

Badenzer

@Stargazar da geb ich dir recht! Seasons war aber auch einfach nur genial!

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Tom - unvergessen